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Sir John Betjeman, CBE (/ ˈ b ɛ tʃ ə m ən /; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture , helping to save St Pancras railway station from demolition.
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Sir John Betjeman was a poet, broadcaster and journalist. He was the UK’s Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death in 1984. He was amongst the pre-eminent poets of the twentieth century, enthusing people about the value of Britain’s cities, landscapes and architecture, as well as producing many volumes of poetry, which sold in their ...
First verse "Slough" is a ten-stanza poem by Sir John Betjeman, first published in his 1937 collection Continual Dew. The British town of Slough was used as a dump for war surplus materials in the interwar years, and then abruptly became the home of 850 new factories just before World War II. The sudden appearance of this "Trading Estate", which was quickly widely reproduced throughout Britain ...
Summoned by Bells, the blank verse autobiography by John Betjeman, describes his life from his early memories of a middle-class home in Edwardian Highgate, London, to his premature departure from Magdalen College, Oxford .
15 de mai. de 2024 · John Betjeman (born August 28, 1906, London, England—died May 19, 1984, Trebetherick, Cornwall) was a British poet known for his nostalgia for the near past, his exact sense of place, and his precise rendering of social nuance, which made him widely read in England at a time when much of what he wrote about was rapidly vanishing.
